guardian.co.tt/business/... - The T&T Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) joins with the Caribbean Community in its strong objection to the United Kingdom (UK) government’s plans to increase the air passenger departure tax (APD) on persons travelling to the Caribbean. “We view the APD as unnecessary and discriminatory. It is a particularly stinging slap in the face when one considers that the recently signed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is supposed to expand trade and result in developmental benefits for the Caribbean,” said TTCSI president Lawrence Placide in a statement. more...()

www.reuters.com/article/... - The Caribbean's small island states ride out hurricanes year after year, but they are fighting to stay afloat in a global economic storm that is battering rich and poor nations alike. Tiny nations like twin-island St. Kitts and Nevis, a short chain of lush green volcanic cones set in an azure sea, have felt the shocks of the downturn and credit crunch as keenly as the winds and seas that lash them every summer. more...()

www.caribpr.com/details.... - KINGSTON, Jamaica, Thurs. July 2, 2009: This year`s `world greatest show case` of reggae music will be dedicated to the memory of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Reggae Sumfest officials said this week. more...()

www.miamiherald.com/news... - After years of struggling to meet the requirements for cancellation of most of its $1.7 billion in foreign debt, the country has finally achieved $1.2 billion in debt forgiveness from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. more...()

uk.reuters.com/article/i... - To record his next hit El Micha, one of the rising stars of Cuba's reggaeton music blending reggae, Latin and electronic rhythms, just has to knock on his neighbour's door. A microphone plugged into an old computer in an apartment in Havana's working-class suburb of Reparto Electrico serves as the studio where some of Cuba's most successful reggaeton songs are recorded. more...()

www.thisisnottingham.co.... - Lovers of such delicacies as jerk chicken and fried plantains won't want for food options, while shoppers will be able to pick through all sorts of wares.But it's that parade that grabs the attention at any Caribbean carnival.This year, Nottingham organisers brought in members of one of Britain's most popular touring carnival bands to help with the prep work.The Luton-based Rampage Mas Band has participated in the last few Nottingham Carnivals. more...()

www.marketwatch.com/stor... - Scotiabank today launched Scotia Private Client Group in Miami, Florida, the tenth in a series of announcements. The Miami center is a hub for the Bank's expanding wealth management services in the Caribbean and Latin America. Scotiabank is expanding its wealth management services platform to include US-based private banking solutions for high net worth clientele. The center will provide private banking services to non-US residents and non-US citizens only. more...()

www.muzikspace.com - Michael Jackson dies at the age of 50 from a cardiac arrest. His sudden death is mourned throughout the Caribbean and the world: Wyclef, Machel, Nadine Sutherland, and more. more...()

www.reuters.com/article/... - Antigua and Barbuda's authorities arrested the country's former chief financial regulator on Thursday over U.S. charges that he collaborated with Texas billionaire Allen Stanford in a $7 billion fraud. Leroy King was detained on a provisional warrant requested by U.S. more...()

www.etaiwannews.com/etn/... - A 13-year-old girl in St. Lucia has been charged with murder in a barroom stabbing, police said Tuesday. The defendant was among a group of teenage girls that attacked a woman in a rural section of the eastern Caribbean island on June 13, according to a police statement. Authorities have not released her name because she is a juvenile. more...()

www.soccer365.com/us_new... - Jamaica’s Dane Richards is eager for the Gold Cup to get underway as he believes that the Reggae Boyz are the team to beat in this year’s CONCACAF soccer tournament and is hopeful to face the United States in the final. more...()

www.jamaica-gleaner.com/... - VP Records has partnered with Reggae Sumfest which will see the labels marquee artistes performing at the festival from July 19-25 at Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex. Some of the most talked-about, in-demand and chart-topping acts in the business are on the list, including Tarrus Riley, who launches his new album that same week, the red-hot Busy Signal, the royal Queen Ifrica, the marauding Mavado, Lady Saw, Jah Cure, Etana, Coco Tea, Elephant Man, and others. more...()

www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ... - LOS ANGELES, California -- If Rihanna takes the stand at Chris Brown's preliminary hearing Monday, it will be her first time publicly talking about what happened the night her boyfriend allegedly attacked her. Rihanna has cleared her schedule so she could be in court if prosecutors call her as a witness. more...()

www.stabroeknews.com/200... - Triple Olympian and 2002 Commonwealth Games 400 metres gold medalist Aliann Pompey has expressed her frustration at not being able to compete at this year’s inaugural Caribbean Games in Trinidad and Tobago next month, since it was cancelled. more...()

www.kuwaittimes.net/read... - Ships from Miami steam into Jamaica's main harbor loaded with TV sets and blue jeans. But some of the most popular US imports never appear on the manifests: handguns, rifles and bullets that stoke one of the world's highest murder rates. The volume is much less than the flow of US guns into Mexico that end up in the hands of drug cartels, Jamaican authorities recover fewer than 1,000 firearms a year. more...()

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.c... - Hundreds of members of the Indo-Caribbean immigrant community based in Richmond Hill, Queens, have turned out to mourn Pandit Prakash Gosain, a Hindu priest who founded a popular temple in New York City in 1987 and was active in politics in his native Guyana. Mr. Gosain died on Monday morning after suffering a heart attack at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where he had been flown in for treatment and tests, his family said. He was 56. more...()

www.telegraph.co.uk/fina... - Allen Stanford, the cricket-loving Texas billionaire, has surrendered to the FBI and will face criminal charges over allegations of massive fraud involving certificates of deposit issued by his Antigua bank, his lawyer said. Sir Allen, who was arrested on Thursday night, was due to appear in a federal court in Richmond, Virginia, on Friday morning. He is already facing civil charges over the financial dealings. more...()

www.reuters.com/article/... - A $250 million bond issue the U.S. Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority plans to bring to the municipal market next week is the latest sally in a Caribbean rum war with Puerto Rico over federal tax rebates.
The issue will finance a $165 million rum plant in St. Croix and related expenses for drinks giant Diageo PLC (DGE.L), which will shift production of its Captain Morgan Rum from Puerto Rico to the USVI after a contract with Puerto Rican rum producer Destileria Serralles runs out in 2012. more...()

www.reuters.com/article/... - Hundreds of protesters called for Bermudian Premier Ewart Brown to step down on Tuesday and accused him of acting like a dictator in allowing four Guantanamo prisoners from China to settle on the mid-Atlantic island. Some 600 people gathered outside Parliament in the island's capital Hamilton, waving banners and chanting "Brown must go" as they marched to the Cabinet office. more...()

www.barbadosadvocate.com... - THE Barbados Women’s Volleyball team saved their best for last when they defeated the previously undefeated Jamaican team 3-2 in the thrilling finale of the FIVB Women’s Volleyball World Championship – 2nd Round NORCECA Group - D. more...()

www.caribbeannetnews.com... - Participants at the just-concluded 4th Caribbean-American Business Expo and Conference in Orlando, Florida are formulating an Action Plan after two days of intensive discussions on strategies to improve and expand trade and investment with the United States. The June 10-12 Forum, with the theme ”The Caribbean American Relationship in this Era of Change”, organized by Florida’s Caribbean Sun, with sponsorship from a wide range of Caribbean businesses, examined trade, investment, social and other issues against the backdrop of the current global recession.. more...()

www.reuters.com/article/... - Cuban factories are closing down and production is being cut at other workplaces as the international financial crisis weighs on the import-dependent Caribbean island, the official media said on Sunday. A growing shortage of foreign exchange has forced the Communist-run country to drastically cut imports and local budgets, impose power quotas on state-run companies, restructure debt and put off payments to foreign suppliers. more...()

www.stabroeknews.com/200... - Bandits early yesterday morning shot a man in the neck; beat, terrorised and robbed eight others at a small grocery and barbershop on Mandela Avenue before escaping in a waiting car, having also grabbed two five-pound tins of Fern Leaf milk powder. more...()

www.dominionpaper.ca/web... - People were there from the USA, Canada, and all over the Caribbean - people of different religions and cultures. Veye Yo, his organization, organized a viewing as did his family at Notre Dame D'Haiti church in Miami, It was crowded for the two days as approximately 3000 people gathered. Catholic bishops from Haiti and United States were in attendance. People tearfully marched for hours in Little Haiti in front of Veve Yo headquarters where a stage was set to receive his body for the last time. more...()

www.royalgazette.com/sif... - He was able to meet CEOs of other Digicel markets in the Caribbean and South America, such as Panama, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and other countries, in addition to undergoing training and helping to launch the company in the likes of the British Virgin Islands. more...()

goal.com/en-us/news/114/... - After the 2-1 win over Trinidad and Tobago, it may seem like Mexico had a harder time during the game. Although the score was close, the margin could have been greater as Mexico missed several scoring chances.The team opened the scoring early in the first minute of the game, but several chances after that left goal scorer Guillermo Franco frustrated with the missed opportunities.
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www.nationalpost.com/new... - UNITED NATIONS -- The chief United Nations investigator on slavery signalled Wednesday that Haiti -- the only nation born of a slave revolt -- has entrenched child enslavement through its long-denounced "restavek" system.The finding by Gulnara Shahinian after she toured the Caribbean nation raises pressure on Canada and other major aid donors to the country to focus more on eliminating the blight. more...()

www.washingtonpost.com/w... - The Kennedy Center's Millennium stage rollicked with the rhythms of the Caribbean last week in a performance that kicked off Caribbean American Heritage Month. The pulsating sounds of the Positive Vibrations Youth Steel Orchestra -- with its rendition of Alicia Keyes's "No One," arranged by artistic director Malika Coletta -- brought the house down and the audience to their feet. In a one-hour concert, the orchestra played its interpretations of jazz, gospel and calypso to a capacity crowd. more...()

www.cdnn.info/news/trave... - With a steady rise in violent crime including an alarming increase in homicides, Trinidad and Tobago has overtaken Jamaica as the "murder capital of the Caribbean". While homicides increased two percent in Jamaica in 2008, murders were up a staggering 38 percent in Trinidad and Tobago. more...()